A lot of people on this forum are under the illusion this is a representation of the real world, while it's not.
Apple, and not only Apple, makes a lot of marketing research before choosing strategies, and then act accordingly.
There are a lot of people here thinking they are smarter and brighter than everyone else, even if they have zero experience in this field.
If Apple choose to set the base model at 16 Gb, they surely backed up their decision with sales data from previous models like the iPhone 5S and 5C.
Eventually they will switch to 32 Gb when it's the right time, from a marketing point of view.
As a final user, clearly I'd like to have a 32 Gb iPhone 6 as base model, because for me 16 Gb are barely enough and 64 Gb are overkill. I could have spared 110€.
OMG. What a bunch of nonsense. Let me summarize what I read in plain simple terms:
'Because Apple makes money, this means they know everything! You, the consumer simply don't know WTF you NEED. What you
want is absolutely irrelevant since you aren't as smart as the people at Apple that have studied what you
should want.'
Here's what I see instead:
Android now represents over 84% of the smart phone market (selling those phones that consumers apparently WANT rather than the phones Apple knows you NEED) and their share is growing while Apple's share is diminishing (
http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp)
In the days of the Mac when Windows became available, the Apple share market share plummeted since Apple prices and offerings couldn't compete with multiple vendors and actual competition. History
will repeat itself. It's only a matter of time and the above attitude is precisely
why it will repeat itself. Apple is selling what they want you to buy. People are buying what they want from people willing to give it to them. Apple is making lots of money because they have a 100% share of iOS hardware devices and their overall market share is enough to make them a lot of money. They have this share because of innovation, but just as the Mac was once innovative, the competition eventually catches up and does it cheaper and with a lot more options for the consumer to choose from. People like options and Apple hates them. But as Apple's smart phone share drops ever lower, app developers will begin to abandon the platform for richer waters and their shares of profit will drop with it until they are irrelevant, just like with the mid '90s Mac.
Apple is notorious for putting short-term profits (i.e. premium prices) ahead of long-term market share and it is what nearly bankrupt them in the '90s. The ONLY reason Apple worked under Steve Jobs is that he was a great innovator (iPod, OS X, iPhone, iPad). There aren't great innovators at Apple anymore and so they NEED market share and they simply don't have it and won't have it when they continue to hold back features consumers
WANT for NO OTHER REASON THAN
GREED.
Thus, the
real reason Apple does not have removable batteries or SD cards or USB ports is that they want to sell you batteries, sell you a newer iPhone every year or every other year and they don't want you to be able to put a damn thing on your phone that they don't approve and/or can't sell you themselves (i.e. USB ports would make it easier to hack and put 3rd party software on there without paying them a 33% "protection money" fee). The reason the newer Macbooks have fewer and fewer ports is that they want to sell you adapters galore, monitors with hubs, etc. Apple is going to nickel and dime their way to death. They have a lot of cash right now so it will take some time, but if they don't change their ways, it is only a matter of time before history puts them right back where they were. I know people don't believe it, but who ever thought Apple would eclipse Microsoft back in the '90s? Times change and Apple hasn't changed for the better without Steve. It is precisely the '90s when Apple didn't have Steve and look at them then. I see the same stale crap going on.
New colors and a flat look does not a better operating system make!
